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Originally Posted by Jaykus

I'm having trouble calling methods from subsystems on Netbeans. When I call DriveSystem, it shows up fine and the preset methods show up, but whenever I try to call a method that I created myself it gives me an error saying "cannot find symbol method doNothing()". I tried different subsystems and commands, and even tried renaming them, but nothing seems to work and I can't find anything that might cause an error.

Command Code:

public class DriveDoNothing extends CommandBase {

    public DriveDoNothing() {
        requires(DriveSystem);
    }


    protected void execute() {
        DriveSystem.doNothing();

    }
}

Subsystem Code:

public class DriveSystem extends Subsystem {

    public void doNothing() {

         leftMotor.set(0.0);

        rightMotor.set(0.0);

    }
}

What you need to do is declare a static instance of your subsystem in your CommandBase class.

public class CommandBase {

     public static DriveSystem driveSystem = new DriveSystem();
...
}

Then you use this static instance of the dirve system in your command.

public class DriveDoNothing extends CommandBase {

    public DriveDoNothing() {
        requires(driveSystem);
    }


    protected void execute() {
        driveSystem.doNothing();

    }
}

If you'd like more details of why this works the way it does I'd be happy to expand my explanation for you.